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Rh wound dressed. He was told that it was Bckbatanaj and soon afterwards expired

THE DEVIL IN ROME.

Twardvoski, the Faust, or Michael Scott, or D. D. McKay, of Lithuanian legends, sold his soul to the devil, but the fiend could only lay claim to it if they met in Rome. At a hamlet of his native country which chanced to be called Rome, the devil accosted him, and claimed his own, but Twardvoski by some subterfuge baffled him.

THE SIEGE OE LAON.

The seigneur de Givry, lover of Mile, de Guise, was killed at that siege. "On lui avait prédit depuis peu qu'il mourrait devant l'an, et celd ponvait entendre devant l'année ou devant la ville de Laon. Le chevalier de Cheverney, son beau-pere, dit qu'il fut tue devant Laon."

TICONDEROGA.

Captain Campbell, of Lochawe, while at home in the Highlands, had a vivid dream, in which a long-ago murdered ancestor of his own appeared to him. Believing that the apparition might forbode his death, he asked of his spectral visitor if he was soon to die. "No," replied the ghost, "not soon, but at Ticonderoga." Captain Campbell awoke repeating to himself this strange name, which to his memory and to his knowledge conveyed no idea whatever. He thought of it only as a place in dreamland.

Some years later, and during the war of American independence, his regiment was engaged in an action under the walls of Fort Edward. Captain Campbell was wounded and carried to the rear. After the battle a brother officer mentioned to him that the real, the Indian name, of the place was a curious one, "Ticonderoga."

Captain Campbell died two days later of his wound.